A report on Donald Trump, Presidency of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

The 2016 presidential electoral vote. Five individuals besides Trump and Clinton received electoral votes from faithless electors.

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

A placard criticizing Bannon at an anti-Trump protest

Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.

Bannon during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operation

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Bannon and other advisors watching Trump sign an executive order

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon shakes hands with WH Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at 2017 CPAC

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, (orange) the Toronto Star, and CNN (blue) compiled data on "false or misleading claims" and "false claims," respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 30,573 false or misleading claims in 4 years, an average of more than 20.9 per day.

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)

Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump signed new anti-sex-trafficking legislation on April 16, 2018.

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump pays tribute to fallen police officers on May 15, 2017

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September8, 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March3, 2017

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

The CBO estimated in May 2017 that the Republican AHCA would reduce the number of people with health insurance by 23 million during 2026, relative to current law.

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Drug overdoses killed 70,200 in the United States in 2017.

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3, 2020.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump watch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the welcoming ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (left) on September 30, 2019. Outgoing chairman General Joseph Dunford (right) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (center-right) are present.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019

Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017

Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012

Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.

Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017

Gallup approval polling, covering February 2017 – December 2020
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Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

- Presidency of Donald Trump

He served as the White House's chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term.

- Steve Bannon

Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics.

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In August 2016, he appointed Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News—described by Bannon as "the platform for the alt-right"—as his campaign CEO.

- Donald Trump

Those pardoned include his former senior adviser Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner's friend charged with cyberstalking, Ken Kurson; a real estate lawyer, Albert Pirro; and rappers prosecuted on federal weapons offenses, Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

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Alt-right

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Abbreviation of alternative right, is a loosely connected far-right white nationalist movement.

Richard B. Spencer claimed to have coined the term "alternative right" in 2008.

The Daily Stormer is named for the Nazi tabloid Der Stürmer, known for its antisemitic caricatures. This 1934 billboard for Der Stürmer reads "With Der Stürmer against Judea. The Jews are our misfortune".

The alt-right largely rallied behind the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, although he distanced himself from the movement.

Hillary Clinton's August 2016 speech denouncing the alt-right helped bring the movement to mainstream attention

The Russian far-right theorist Aleksandr Dugin was popular with the alt-right

A placard criticizing the alt-right displayed at the 2017 Women's March.

The Pepe the Frog meme, originally created in 2005, was adopted by the alt-right and became a "mascot" for the movement.

A young man displaying the flag of Kekistan at a pro-Trump rally; the flag is an alt-right symbol.

An attendee at the Unite the Right rally carrying a firearm and wearing a Confederate battle flag T-shirt.

"Trump is Alt-Right with Us". Anti-Trump protesters highlight what they regard as his links to the alt-right and to historical fascism by dressing as Hitler and Mussolini.

Counter-protesters at the 2017 Unite the Right rally.

In 2015, it attracted broader attention—particularly through coverage on Steve Bannon's Breitbart News—due to alt-right support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

However, press sources alleged that several appointments within the Trump administration were linked to the alt-right, including Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, Special Assistant to the President Julia Hahn, and speechwriter Darren Beattie.

Breitbart News

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Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large of Breitbart News since 2012

Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News

Steve Bannon at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference

Breitbart News aligned with the alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon, who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.

Breitbart News strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Bannon was appointed White House Chief Strategist in the administration of US President Donald Trump and served in that role for seven months; he was dismissed from the White House on August 17, 2017.

Jared Kushner

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American businessman and investor.

Kushner Companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for $1.8 billion, the most expensive single property purchase in US history at the time.

In May 2015, Kushner purchased a majority stake of One Times Square for $295 million.

Kushner (right) with The New York Observer's then editor-in-chief Peter W. Kaplan, September 2008.

Kushner and the Trump family, pictured at a campaign victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 1, 2016

Kushner during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operation

Kushner with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March 2017

Dedication ceremony of the Embassy of the United States in Jerusalem, May 2018

Kushner is said to be the main architect of Trump's Israeli–Palestinian peace plan.

Kushner, Vice President Mike Pence and Peter Navarro during a coronavirus update briefing on April 2, 2020

Kushner and Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Iraqi defence minister Erfan al-Hiyali in Baghdad on April 3, 2017

President Trump, joined by Kushner and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 2019

Kushner with Ivanka and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in May 2017

He served as a senior advisor to 45th U.S. president Donald Trump, his father-in-law.

As senior advisor to President Trump, Kushner pushed strongly for the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill which Trump signed into law in 2018.

Kushner, together with Paul Manafort and Brad Parscale, hired Steve Bannon's firm Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump campaign.

John F. Kelly

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Kelly's official U.S. Southern Command portrait

Kelly and U.S. Senator John Warner hold a briefing regarding the status of investigations into the Haditha incident on May 25, 2006

Kelly testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee

Kelly briefing reporters at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia

Kelly is ceremonially sworn in prior to President Trump's speech at DHS Headquarters on January 25, 2017. Kelly was actually sworn in five days prior.

John Francis Kelly (born May 11, 1950) is an American former political advisor and retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019.

He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and was commander of United States Southern Command.

On August 18, 2017, Kelly removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist, on behalf of President Trump.

Mitch McConnell

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American politician and retired attorney serving as Senate minority leader since 2021 and as the senior United States senator from Kentucky.

President Ronald Reagan in a meeting with McConnell in the Oval Office, March 1987

President George H. W. Bush with McConnell and Elaine Chao in February 1991

President George W. Bush shake hands with McConnell, January 2001

Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, and McConnell celebrate the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, December 2017

McConnell (left) with then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh (middle), the nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, 2018.

During the Trump administration, the Senate Republican majority under his leadership confirmed a record number of federal appeals court judges during a president's first two years.

In October 2017, White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and other Trump allies blamed McConnell for stalling the Trump administration's legislation.

In January 2017, Republican president Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left after Scalia's death.